GLOBE Malaria Project

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GLOBE Malaria Project

• Presentation by
• Dr Haja Nirina RAZAFINJATOVO, Minister of
  Education
• August 2nd, 2005

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• Presentation Plan
• Global context of malaria
• Overview of the malaria problem in Africa and
  Madagascar
• GLOBE - Malaria project objective
• Project scope
• Project Expected results
• Project outline

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Drug resistance to P. falciparum from studies in
sentinel sites, up to 2004
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Diseases Rank Classification - Madagascar -
Bulletin D'Information En Épidémiologie Et Santé
Publique. Ministère de la Santé/FAC/OMS/UNICEF.
Antananarivo,/Madagascar - 1994 - 1998./UN999zzed,
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Data from Service des Informations Sanitaires
pour la Gestion de la Santé (SISGS) Institut
Pasteur de Madagascar (IPM) - 2000 -
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Duchemin J.B., Rabarison P., Le Goff G., Marrama
L., Laventure S., Ratovonjato J., Zeller H.,
Rakotondraibe E. Robert V. Les vecteurs du
paludisme à Madagascar (www.pasteur.mg).
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• Globe Malaria Objectives
• To make students aware of causes, prevention and
  life cycle of malaria
• To develop a protocol for identifying between
  anopheline and non anopheline mosquitoes
• To develop partnership between public health
  professionals and GLOBE schools in Mcar

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• The project scope
• At local level because malaria is a local
  problem
• At National level for the needs of the MENRS and
  Ministry of Health
• At Regional level in order to develop a regional
  sciences specific study
• At International level to partnership.

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• Expected results
• There will be
• Increased student and community knowledge about
  global climate change/human activity impact and
  malaria resurgence.
• Collection of data on mosquitoe larval population
  in potential breeding habitats and water quality
  and meteorogical metadata
• Data collection on malaria cases in regional
  health care centers

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Future malaria world-wide expansion ?
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GLOBE - Malaria Project outline

• To form partnerships
• To select study sites
• To develop some new protocols and modify some new
  existing protocols
• To train teachers

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Contributors

• Dr. David BROOKS
• Dr. Rebecca BOGER
• Dr. Michel RATSIMBASON
• Albert RAFALIMANANA, GLOBE CC
• Others